The name of Heath Ledger’s bar may have been taken from a Nick Drake album. [Guest of a Guest]

Matt Gee, the Sasha Petraske–trained mixologist at the Randolph, explains why he freezes all of his bottles, why there are sometimes no stools at the bar, and fingers his favorite cocktail lounges around town. [Gothamist]

In his new book The Man Who Ate the World, English critic Jay Rayner tours Buddakan with Tim Zagat, who runs into his unlikely friend Bo Dietl [Gawker]